Sanitary drinking apparatus.



S. T. WHITAKER.

SANITARY'DRINKING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 30. I9I6.

Patented Jan. 23, 1917.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL WHITAKER, 0F COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, ASSIGNOR OF ON E-HALF TO HOMER C. McCUTCI-IEN. OF COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 23, 1917.

Application filed September 30, 1916. Serial No. 123,077.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, SAMUEL T. VVHrrA- KER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Muscogee and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sanitary Drinking Apparatus; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in sanitary drinking apparatus, and has for its object improvement in that type of such apparatus as designed for direct application to a bottle.

The object in view is the attainment of all of the advantages secured by the specific form of apparatus illustrated in my copending application Serial No. 120,260, filed September 15, 1916, while at the same time obtaining the further utility of providing for extreme compactness of the parts during storage or shipment.

With this and further objects in view as will in part hereinafter be described and in part become apparent, the invention comprises certain novel constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts as subsequently specified and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing,Figure 1 is a vertical central section through an apparatus embodying the features of the present invention, the upperportion of the bottle being shown in section. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view of the apparatus, the section being taken on the plane indicated by line 2-2 of Fig. 1 and looking downward. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the apparatus in its collapsed condition. Fig. 4 is a per spective view of the apparatus extended.

Referring to the drawing by numerals, 1, 1 indicate sections of the tubular body of the apparatus, which sections taper away from the lineof jointure between the sections so that each section is a duplicate of the other, and at the line of jointure there is provided an outstanding ridge or annular flange 2. Each section 1 is shaped to fit snugly within the upper end of the neck of a bottle with the ridge 2 resting on top of the bottle neck. The ridge 2 may be produced in any of various ways, but in practice is preferably formed by providing an annular flange at the end of each section 1 and in uniting said flanges. Between the said flanges is arranged a screen 3, preferably of textile fabric. The fabric and flanges may be secured together by glue or otherwise as preferred, and the sections 1 with their flanges are preferably formed of paper and coated with paraflin or other substance for rendermg the sections impervious to moisture.

The ridge or flange 2 is out along radial lines 4, 4, into segments 2, 2, so that in operation the sections 1 may have their walls collapsed upon each other, as indicated in Fig. 3, and the segments will fold easily alternately in opposite directions or adjust themselves naturally to the flattened conditionof the body by having those segments adjacent the edges extend in one direction and the intermediate segments extend in the other direction, as shown in Fig. 3.

In operation, the apparatus being completed and ready for shipment or packing, the manufacturer collapses the structure to the position seen in Fig. 3 and ships the same to the consumer in quantities as ordered. The consumer preferably applies the apparatus for use by grasping the body along its edges and pressing the edges toward each other. This causes the sections 1 to open to a substantially elliptical shape, and this movement is continued until the ends of the sections 1 are sufficiently rounded out to enter the neck of a bottle. One of the sections is then thrust into. the bottle and this act completes the rounding out of the section and at the same time causes the segments 2 to move to their outstanding position for forming the ridge or stop 2. The fabric 3 serves as a filter for the liquid delivered from the bottle and also serves to strengthen the line of jointure between the segments 2 and the section 1 so as to obviate breakage along that line.

The apparatus having been applied to a bottle after the manner indicated'in Fig. 1, the bottle is raised to the mouthand the outstanding section 1 is inserted so as to enable the user to drink substantially after the manner of taking a bottle neck between the lips for drinking purposes.

What I claim is 1. In a sanitary drinking apparatus, the combination, of alined tubular sections, and a ridge outstanding therefrom, the said ridge and sections being constructed to be individually collapsed to a substantially flat condition.

2. In a sanitary drinking apparatus, the combination, of alined tubular sections, and a ridge outstanding therefrom, the said ridge being severed on lines dividing the ridge into segments for enabling the collapsing of the ridge and sections to a substantally flat condition.

3. In a sanitary drinking apparatus, the combination, of alined tubular sections, and a ridge outstanding therefrom, the said ridge being severed on radial lines dividing the ridge into segments adapted for extend ing substantially lengthwise of the tubular sections. 7

4. In a sanitary drinking apparatus, the combination, of alined tubular sections, and a ridge outstanding therefrom the said ridge being severed on radial lines dividing the ridge into segments adapted for extending substantially lengthwise of the tubular sections, some of said segments being adapted to extend in one direction and others in the opposite direction along the tubular sections.

5. In a sanitary drinking apparatus, the combination, of alined tubular sections, a

ridge outstanding therefrom, and a fabric extending across the opening of the tubular sections and embedded Within the ridge, the said ridge being adapted to be collapsed on the sections when the sections are collapsed to a substantially flat condition.

6. In a sanitary drinking apparatus, the combination, of alined tubular sections, a ridge outstanding therefrom, and a fabric embedded Within the ridge, the said ridge being adapted to be collapsed on the sections when the sections are collapsed to a substantially flat condition.

7. In a sanitary drinking apparatus, the combination, of alined tubular sections, a ridge outstanding therefrom and a fabric embedded Within the ridge, the said ridge being adapted to be collapsed on the sections when the sections are collapsed to a sub stantially fiat condition, the ridge being cut into parts movable relative to each other.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

SAMUEL T. WHITAKER.

IVitnesses T. L. Bowman, Jos. D. FARISH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

